With respect to fraud in store (stolen CC#), the credit card company isn't on the hook for the money. If they reverse the charges, it's the store that takes the hit. I assume a similar point is true here, if you dispute the charges and they reverse it then the CC company doesn't eat the cost, the scamming company just doesn't get the money.
This is probably why the credit card companies have little incentive to investigate or stop working with any particular company: the cost to them to reverse charges is fairly small, whereas launching an investigation would be expensive, and they're not really losing anything in public opinion because most people apparently don't realize the companies are a scam and therefore aren't clamoring, "Why didn't you protect us?"
Also, because of the work that's done by the integer pipeline, even so-called floating point applications still may do more than 50% integer processing.
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So when someone makes logical arguments, they are being bought and paid for by big oil??? When bikers pay into the highway system, then they can have bike lanes. It costs money to build and maintain bike lanes.. how can anyone disagree with bike riders paying their fair share to use them???
Assuming that a large portion of your bikers are people biking to work, I'd guess they're taxpayers and thus are paying into the highway system.
Unless of course they meant a one-liner coupled with a comment from the previous implementation, ie, the clever programmer failed to cleverly update the comment.
I would've modded that funny...but my points expired yesterday.
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Although I think the DRM included on Ruckus files prevented them from being played on portable devices. IIRC, you had to pay per-track to mobilize it beyond your computer (and each account could only be used to download on two computers, although if you had multiple.edu addresses you could of course authorize more computers).
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I disagree. If you've ever used Ruckus, you can't say you liked it.
Not true. It was great for sampling music, or for listening to my music at work when I didn't have my Zune around. It was a little sluggish to open, but iTunes and Zune are both really slow to open too, especially with a reasonably large library.
And for the other commenter complaining about audio ads--it was easy enough to skip the front page. I just bookmarked (or rather, Firefox's awesome bar took care of it for me) an album page and I always used that as my landing page. Just had to click past one ring tone site ad and then it was just graphical ads.
What a shame, I was hoping to check out the new Thornley and Luna Mortis CDs tomorrow before going out to buy them. Guess I'll have to see if Spiralfrog has improved since the last time I checked and if they'll have either of those CDs.
The only thing dumbed down about Zune is the PC software... which is pretty much horrendous for navigation and tag management. That said, I never really cared for iTunes for library or tag management either.
If Microsoft could drop the price on all the units the way they did when they tried to liquidate their stock of brown 30G Zunes, I think they'd do much better. Some of the Apple fanboys will never turn away from their new iGadgets, but the Zune device's functionality is just as good IMO for most people and that's when price becomes the deciding factor.
That's pretty much the same though I have about Hulu, and for that matter reasonably-sized/-shaped non-popup ads on websites. Sure, tv shows on Hulu have commercial breaks in the same places as broadcast TV, but you only get at most 30 sec of advertising instead of a few minutes. If Pandora wants to break the music every 10 or 15 songs for a 15 or 30 second ad spot to stay on the air, go for it.
That's kind of why it says in TFA (which I'm "sure" you read) that it's overkill. This was on CNN a few days ago and the commentary went something like "this is obviously somewhat heavy-handed, and not really what the law is about, but if you want to punish people to try to put a stop to the activity you use the tools you have." The interesting difference between the MSNBC article and the CNN commentary though is the MSNBC article indicates the involved teens will have to register as sex offenders (another law which is somewhat abused), while the CNN commentary said since they're minors it wouldn't have any long-term negative repercussions.
I think the problem is a lot of the cool stuff is at MSR, so the stuff that sees the light of day is a stripped down or limited. I'd like to be able to play with some of their image manipulation/management software, for instance--whatever thing thing was for generating views through collections of pictures--but last I checked it was web-only, and I don't really care to upload gigs and gigs of photos just to try it out.
Btw... don't forget the lessons of OS/2. It could run windows 3.11 applications, but not nearly as fast or efficiently as a native OS/2 Warp app.
Doesn't apply to a virtual machine. This isn't OSX running Windows apps, this is Windows running windows apps.
Yes, but it's virtualized Windows running Windows apps, and there's some more-or-less unavoidable overhead when virtualizing x86. (Yes, occasionally things will actually run slightly faster, but generally speaking if the app does anything other than pure computation you'll see a slowdown.)
That said, of course, if it's not "fast" but "fast enough," that's good enough.
By falling into the sun, do you actually mean the planets are on more of a inward-spiral orbit than an elliptical orbit, or just that the sun will expand over time? (The latter, I'm assuming.)
Of course, the earth breaking free of the sun's gravity and drifting off into space, with or without the moon, would be just as much of an end of life on Earth as being burned up by the sun.
Do you have any actual backup for that? The last three desktops I've owned have all had AMD processors, and the only thing that's gone bad on any of them was the AGP slot went bad on one of the mobos after about 5 years.
That was my thought... soft errors in general may or may not be an actual problem worth considering (although I know lots of people research solutions, so somebody must believe in it)... but if you're on top of a site which probably still has active radiation, I'd think it would be a bigger issue.
As I commented here, I don't think Apple will be forced to absorb the increase in royalty. They'll be able to pass a 6 cent increase on to most of their customers without chasing them away.
Let's see... Google calculator tells me my 4.2Mbps is roughly 525KB/s.
Maybe it's because I only get files in serial, but in the year I've had Comcast I've pretty much never come anywhere near that, especially at a sustained speed.
Really? All of the places I've worked (well, okay, so that's just been a university and Intel) have been "at will" employment--either party can terminate employment for any (or no) reason.
Unfortunately, this leaves you stuck between "download now, buy later" or "haunt your local CD shop and hope somebody else has sold them the new CD you want."
I significantly grew my CD collection from used discs of music pre-2006, but for the last two years most new CDs I'm interested in I just pick up on release day.
I don't know, I'm pretty sure YouTube pays royalties on material... at least, as long as it's been identified.
I think I'm in the opposite camp from you, I prefer Pandora because it's much more likely to feed me artists I don't know. Most of the music I play on Pandora ends up having, for related videos, more by the same artist, amateur covers of those tracks, or other tracks from the same record label. And such as it is, I'm usually the friend who introduces everybody else to new music.
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Nah... here at UVA they're living equally dependently on their parents' income all four years. At least.
With respect to fraud in store (stolen CC#), the credit card company isn't on the hook for the money. If they reverse the charges, it's the store that takes the hit. I assume a similar point is true here, if you dispute the charges and they reverse it then the CC company doesn't eat the cost, the scamming company just doesn't get the money.
This is probably why the credit card companies have little incentive to investigate or stop working with any particular company: the cost to them to reverse charges is fairly small, whereas launching an investigation would be expensive, and they're not really losing anything in public opinion because most people apparently don't realize the companies are a scam and therefore aren't clamoring, "Why didn't you protect us?"
Also, because of the work that's done by the integer pipeline, even so-called floating point applications still may do more than 50% integer processing.
Assuming that a large portion of your bikers are people biking to work, I'd guess they're taxpayers and thus are paying into the highway system.
Unless of course they meant a one-liner coupled with a comment from the previous implementation, ie, the clever programmer failed to cleverly update the comment.
I would've modded that funny...but my points expired yesterday.
Although I think the DRM included on Ruckus files prevented them from being played on portable devices. IIRC, you had to pay per-track to mobilize it beyond your computer (and each account could only be used to download on two computers, although if you had multiple .edu addresses you could of course authorize more computers).
I disagree. If you've ever used Ruckus, you can't say you liked it.
Not true. It was great for sampling music, or for listening to my music at work when I didn't have my Zune around. It was a little sluggish to open, but iTunes and Zune are both really slow to open too, especially with a reasonably large library. And for the other commenter complaining about audio ads--it was easy enough to skip the front page. I just bookmarked (or rather, Firefox's awesome bar took care of it for me) an album page and I always used that as my landing page. Just had to click past one ring tone site ad and then it was just graphical ads. What a shame, I was hoping to check out the new Thornley and Luna Mortis CDs tomorrow before going out to buy them. Guess I'll have to see if Spiralfrog has improved since the last time I checked and if they'll have either of those CDs.
Before humans, was there ever an atomic explosion on the surface of this planet?
Weren't you paying attention? Xenu detonated a bunch of hydrogen bombs back when this rock was known as Teegeeack.
Whoops...spoiled it for all those people who haven't made it to OT3 yet.
The only thing dumbed down about Zune is the PC software... which is pretty much horrendous for navigation and tag management. That said, I never really cared for iTunes for library or tag management either.
If Microsoft could drop the price on all the units the way they did when they tried to liquidate their stock of brown 30G Zunes, I think they'd do much better. Some of the Apple fanboys will never turn away from their new iGadgets, but the Zune device's functionality is just as good IMO for most people and that's when price becomes the deciding factor.
That's pretty much the same though I have about Hulu, and for that matter reasonably-sized/-shaped non-popup ads on websites. Sure, tv shows on Hulu have commercial breaks in the same places as broadcast TV, but you only get at most 30 sec of advertising instead of a few minutes. If Pandora wants to break the music every 10 or 15 songs for a 15 or 30 second ad spot to stay on the air, go for it.
That's kind of why it says in TFA (which I'm "sure" you read) that it's overkill. This was on CNN a few days ago and the commentary went something like "this is obviously somewhat heavy-handed, and not really what the law is about, but if you want to punish people to try to put a stop to the activity you use the tools you have." The interesting difference between the MSNBC article and the CNN commentary though is the MSNBC article indicates the involved teens will have to register as sex offenders (another law which is somewhat abused), while the CNN commentary said since they're minors it wouldn't have any long-term negative repercussions.
I think the problem is a lot of the cool stuff is at MSR, so the stuff that sees the light of day is a stripped down or limited. I'd like to be able to play with some of their image manipulation/management software, for instance--whatever thing thing was for generating views through collections of pictures--but last I checked it was web-only, and I don't really care to upload gigs and gigs of photos just to try it out.
In Soviet Russia, proper possessive grammar forms you!
Btw... don't forget the lessons of OS/2. It could run windows 3.11 applications, but not nearly as fast or efficiently as a native OS/2 Warp app.
Doesn't apply to a virtual machine. This isn't OSX running Windows apps, this is Windows running windows apps.
Yes, but it's virtualized Windows running Windows apps, and there's some more-or-less unavoidable overhead when virtualizing x86. (Yes, occasionally things will actually run slightly faster, but generally speaking if the app does anything other than pure computation you'll see a slowdown.) That said, of course, if it's not "fast" but "fast enough," that's good enough.
By falling into the sun, do you actually mean the planets are on more of a inward-spiral orbit than an elliptical orbit, or just that the sun will expand over time? (The latter, I'm assuming.)
Of course, the earth breaking free of the sun's gravity and drifting off into space, with or without the moon, would be just as much of an end of life on Earth as being burned up by the sun.
Frequently?
Do you have any actual backup for that? The last three desktops I've owned have all had AMD processors, and the only thing that's gone bad on any of them was the AGP slot went bad on one of the mobos after about 5 years.
That was my thought... soft errors in general may or may not be an actual problem worth considering (although I know lots of people research solutions, so somebody must believe in it)... but if you're on top of a site which probably still has active radiation, I'd think it would be a bigger issue.
As I commented here, I don't think Apple will be forced to absorb the increase in royalty. They'll be able to pass a 6 cent increase on to most of their customers without chasing them away.
Let's see... Google calculator tells me my 4.2Mbps is roughly 525KB/s.
Maybe it's because I only get files in serial, but in the year I've had Comcast I've pretty much never come anywhere near that, especially at a sustained speed.
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The university I worked for was in Virginia (this was in 2005), and Intel (summer 08) was in Massachusetts.
What's not sensible about at-will employment?
True, for a broad enough definition of any that was a false statement. I guess those restrictions are the ones that get called "no reason" ;)
Really? All of the places I've worked (well, okay, so that's just been a university and Intel) have been "at will" employment--either party can terminate employment for any (or no) reason.
Unfortunately, this leaves you stuck between "download now, buy later" or "haunt your local CD shop and hope somebody else has sold them the new CD you want."
I significantly grew my CD collection from used discs of music pre-2006, but for the last two years most new CDs I'm interested in I just pick up on release day.
I don't know, I'm pretty sure YouTube pays royalties on material... at least, as long as it's been identified.
I think I'm in the opposite camp from you, I prefer Pandora because it's much more likely to feed me artists I don't know. Most of the music I play on Pandora ends up having, for related videos, more by the same artist, amateur covers of those tracks, or other tracks from the same record label. And such as it is, I'm usually the friend who introduces everybody else to new music.